Content warning: This article contains numerous examples of bigoted rhetoric. Users on Reddit’s “r/conspiracy” forum have repeatedly and openly posted anti-LGBTQ content for years without pushback, despite the platform’s rules prohibiting “hate based on identity or vulnerability” and anti-LGBTQ “groomer” rhetoric. Reddit has a history of taking action against other subreddits that have violated those rules. A Media Matters review of r/conspiracy since May 2020 found a widespread pattern of anti-LGBTQ hate, which includes accusing the LGBTQ community of grooming, having “mental illness,” and associating with pedophilia.
Conspiracy was the catch-all for several years when they shut down TheDonald and various other right leaning subs. Now its mostly just bots, trash, propaganda, and mod approved content making it to hot. It used to be an interesting place in the years before that and you can still occasionally find something interesting if sorting by new.
Yup. They serve the same function as the_donald and are above every sitewide rule as a result, just like their predecessor.